Finalists for the UGA Terry College of Business 2026 Student of the Year Award include, from left, Andre Akinyemi, Katie Fields, winner Dylan Van Saun, Sophia Beasley and Dominic Roselli.
Van Saun’s passion for financial markets and helping others understand them earned him the honor of being named the 2026 Student of the Year.
Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, the university’s newest Regents’ Professors, delivered the 2026 Charter Lecture, an event established in 1988 to honor the university’s founding ideals. The lecture highlighted how their research, spanning more than three decades, has progressed from theoretical inquiry to addressing urgent global challenges.
Last week, U.S. juries delivered two verdicts holding Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta and YouTube liable for endangering physical and mental health. Whether or not the verdicts hold up under appeal, legal studies professors Lindsay Sain Jones and Tim Samples say the moment could mark a new approach to regulating digital services.
The UGA Center for Teaching and Learning recognized Economics PhD candidate Abigail Cormier with its Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award.
The UGA Office of Service Learning has recognized Stacy M. Campbell, Synovus Director of the Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA), with its Service-Learning Excellence Award. Service is a core component of the ILA experience. Campbell connects her students with partner agencies across Georgia, providing them with the opportunity to make a real-world impact with their coursework.
Sustainable business is more than making sure everyone has a recycling bin at their desk. From responsible marketing to building the back end of the circular economy, Terry College students are building the skills they need to ‘do good, while doing well’ in tomorrow’s economy.
Terry College of Business students competed in the final round of the 2026 Global Mobility Industry Solutions Competition, hosted by the Metro Atlanta Relocation Council (MARC) in Atlanta on March 19.
Terry College of Business students applied their economics and analytics skills to real-world problems facing Georgians as part of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government Vinson Fellows Program.
Teff — an ancient grain that forms the foundation of Ethiopian cuisine — has fueled human achievement for at least 4,000 years. Now, University of Michigan MBA student Saron Mechale wants to turn it into a go-to fuel for sports performance. Her sports snack creation, goTeff, took home the $15,000 top prize at the University of Georgia Collegiate Great Brands Competition.
The Honorable Steve Jones (BBA ’78, JD ’87) built a legal career that brought him from the Clarke County district attorney’s office to the U.S. District Court in Atlanta. With every case, he worked to strengthen the country’s belief in the legal system.
Jhaycee Barnes, a senior economics and political science major, won the UGA President’s Fulfilling the Dream Award in recognition of her work mentoring younger students.
Elena Karahanna and J. Marshall Shepherd, two recently named Regents’ Professors at the University of Georgia, will share insights from their groundbreaking research at the 2026 Charter Lecture on March 25. The lecture begins at 11 a.m. in the Chapel and is open to the public.
Since the day she used her own money to buy Stuckey’s from investors in 2019, Stephanie Stuckey has worked ceaselessly to revive it
When Allison O’Kelly BBA ’94 had her first child, she was working at Toys “R” Us and struggling to balance the demands of motherhood and working full time. Aiming to reduce her stress while remaining professionally competitive, she started an accounting firm, offering part-time and freelance work to local clients.
Santanu Chatterjee, a widely respected scholar, teacher and leader in the University of Georgia’s C. Herman and Mary Virginia Terry College of Business, has been named the college’s 13th dean.
Whether your interviewing for a role at investment bank or a coffee shop, it’s important to know your strengths and how to talk about them with an employer. That’s the lesson ILA students recently shared with clients at Extra Special People during a student-led professional skills workshop.
The Terry College will launch a new student-managed real estate investment fund in fall 2026, offering undergraduate students in the nation’s No. 2 publicly ranked Real Estate Program an opportunity to gain hands-on experience managing real capital.
A former English major who transitioned into the world of linguistics and data science, Ireland joined the Terry College of Business in 2025 as the assistant director of the M. Douglas and V. Kay Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights. Now, as the college’s director for the Terry Analytics Lab, she is proving that analytics tools are for people who work with words and numbers alike.
The Trucking Profitability Strategies (TPS) conference, hosted annually by UGA’s Executive Education and the Terry College of Business, has delivered three decades’ worth of trucking knowledge for companies big and small. TPS attendance is limited to asset-based carriers and executive-level decision-makers, creating an environment where leaders speak openly about their challenges and share strategies to survive and grow.
The University of Georgia Stock Pitch Competition, organized by the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) and the Terry College Department of Finance, continues to grow its reputation as an essential bridge between top-tier students and their future employers. This year’s contest took in applications from a record 131 stock pitch teams and organizers invited 20 teams from 18 schools to compete in Athens.
The online Master of Science in Business & Artificial Intelligence, known as the MS in Business and AI, builds on Terry’s highly ranked Master of Business and Technology program while sharpening its focus on artificial intelligence as a strategic business tool.
Rotation, a fashion rental startup envisioned by accounting and finance student Skyler Ventura, aims to monetize that practice and exponentially expand the number of closets available.
The concept took home the $2,500 first prize at UGA Entrepreneurship’s first Spring 2026 Idea Accelerator Demo Day pitch contest.
Values based. Impact driven. Leadership focused. These are the core tenets of UGA’s Institute of Leadership Advancement. Georgia Magazine takes a look at how ILA is helping UGA turn out effective and enlightened leaders.
Fetch Fuel, an electrolyte mix developed to help working and sporting dogs stay hydrated, took home the top prize at the UGA Entrepreneurship Program’s Venture Prize Competition.